Bushfire Recovery Support

In reply to Mr PEDERICK (Hammond) (20 June 2022). (Estimates Committee A)

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development, Minister for Forest Industries):

Total funding under the bushfire recovery program is $45.070m—this excludes local economic recovery funding of $19.352m.

Local economic recovery funding is provided under a fifty-fifty cost share arrangement with the commonwealth, meaning the state is funding $9.676 million.

Overall, this means that the state is funding $17.14 million to finalise the 2019-20 bushfire recovery program.